Somewhere deep in the woods, there is a treasure, rising from the forest floor like a huge Viking helmet.
It’s an old bunker built for the First World War when Sweden feared an attack by the Russians.
It was never used, and faded away to become a part of the woods.
The long corridor underground gave the feeling of swimming underwater
All sounds were shut out by those thick hundred-year-old walls.
A mossy door showed me its black mouth.
I stepped into an eerie room, lit by faint gold and finally made it to the circular room underneath the Viking helmet.
By now, I was thoroughly spooked by the ancient ghosts whispering in the walls,
By the darkness and silence. The dust of ages.
It was with relief that I turned back, ran up the corridors and followed the necklace of light
Out of history and back into the present.
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What an amazing and spooky place! That would indeed be like being lost in history! Terrific captures as always and what a great post for the day, Lady Fi! Hope you have a wonderful week ahead! Enjoy!
Sylvia
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What a wonderful place! Certainly a visit to the past and I love how ‘nature’ has ‘put it to bed’.
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Beautiful shots of a spooky kind of place, ladyFi. Did you go by yourself?
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Well, it was just me and the dog. I have to admit to being pretty scared in there!
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what beautiful and interesting photos!
great lighting and shadows!
well done! 🙂
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Great pictures! It looks like a spooky place even when it was built but I can imagine you felt the ghosts of the past as you went in.. oooooh!!!
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wow! could get claustrophobic!
lovely pics!
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wow! how interesting…thanks for taking us with you….:)
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looks beautiful and interesting but kinda eerie.
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an amazing place!
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How cool, it is a neat and spooky place at the same time. I enjoy reading your captions and your photos are awesome as usual. Have a great day!
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First time here. Came over from Sylvia’s. And what wonderful photographs.! I wouldn’t want to be here on a dark winter night …. 😦
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Wow, what a neat piece of history.
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It’s a real Harry Potterlike place! You described it well!
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Its a real Harry Potterlike place! You described it well.
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How cool! “Necklace of light” – love it!
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Age and Nature have softened its outline but the interior cannot be changed very much. I think you were brave to go in there – I would have worried about being trapped in there!
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What an interesting find. Thanks for taking us along as you explored that old bunker. I like your description of following the necklace of light from the past back to the present. It’s very poetic and goes well with your marvelous pictures.
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· A good story. The stupidity of war leaves us these memories. Thankfully that was never used.
The photos are great, as usual and as the story deserves.
· hugs
CR & LMA
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Oh you were so brave to go in there, even with your dog!! Not so much because of the ‘ghostly things’
more because of the confined space..claustrophobia much!!!!! Brilliant photos, glad you went in so that
we could see haha! well done.
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Very interesting post, enjoyed the glimpse of history and beautiful shots!
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oh wow…this is too cool…i would so be exploring that like all the time…spooky and oh so cool…love it…thanks for the pics!!
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So glad it never had to be used. Eerie history (isn’t it always, its breath always on the back of your neck) and you described it beautifully. Thanks so much for sharing this.
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scary place..but interesting
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I would find it scary too!!!
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Fabulous series of photos. Viking helmet indeed. I especially like the frame within a frame of the open door revealing pitch black.
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From the outside it looks like it must be the home of woodland creatures. Very interesting post.
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Wonderful place and bunker. Great place to visit with camera. Think the light is beautiful. Hope you have a happy week:-)
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Incredible. So very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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All I can think is that this would be the ultimate play place for a pack of boys and girls!! So spooky but cool looking!
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Nice pictures and good prospects of exquisite play of light.
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Thank you for sharing this. I especially like the photo with the key or latch–the mossy door. I imagine it would feel like being in another world…
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So interesting to visit! Where is it?…:)
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It’s in Täby kommun, north of Stockholm.
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Very cool! Thanks for the little history lesson.
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Don’t know if I could have done that – too claustrophobic – but the photos tell the story of age and mustiness.
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—-That is quite Eerie & fascinating at the same time, Lady Fi. X
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Wow! It’s wonderful that you found it and that the tunnels into it were still walkable. And your pictures and words paint a great story.
I would have wanted someone “on the outside” to know I was in there exploring, just in case.
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Great historical tour!! Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.
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Amazing pictures and they convey the fear of the day!! I think I would have headed for the light
– but what a wonderful living monument to history.
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“…necklace of light…” Love that!! Great photos and post. Thank you. 🙂
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I love that the woods are reclaiming it. I have a touch of claustrophobia, so your photos are as close as I could comfortably go. Thank you for the tour.
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That is awesome, I love places like this and would have to explore it if I saw it!
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Cool photos!
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The bunker looks gigantic mushroom in the wood! It is well camouflaged. Glad to know it never be used. I can feel chill air and the dim dark which must have made you feel separated from the outside world. Light is always beautiful especially when it is dark.
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Some places must be haunted. We get that feeling when visiting old pueblo ruins here in New Mexico–there have been so many emotions in the place, such drama, that some vestige must be left behind.
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hee hee… Nice play on words in your title!
Fantastic and interesting post!
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Way cool and it looks exactly like a helmet! I would not have gone in..too many slithery things:)
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Amazing! The key almost parallels the movie about Narnia. Incredible photos!
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Kate Moss should turn this into her private chalet in Sweden! HA!
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That was an interesting piece of a bygone era Fi. Thanks for the experience – Dave
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Apparently we have something like that under our garden: a souvenir from worldwar 2. I’m not keen to have it dug up. It was the government’s idea of defending the Thames against the enemy coming upriver.
this one of yours resembles prehistoric monuments.
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Great shots of the place. Interesting find.
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Wow! Quite a place!
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What a great post! A strange looking bunker indeed! Love your photos. Thanks for sharing something I would not have otherwise seen.
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Very interesting – and I would be scared too – especially if it were just me and the dog! I love your capture of light in that third shot. Perfect exposure!
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What a beautiful story, you’ve managed to express all its beauty, if indeed, even knowing what it represents, you’ve got all your soul.
Greetings .-
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Dramatic!!! Very well taken. Great shots.
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Looking at your photos I already had an eerie feeling! Fantastic photos..
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I wouldn’t like to go inside but I like the moss on the outside – I especially like the image of the mossy door!
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Thank you for taking us on your journey into the past – enjoyed your accompanying narrative; felt like we were there with you!
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Truly a doorway into a different world. I’ve never seen a Viking Helmet bunker before!
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Oh, this makes me think of ghost stories!
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Beautiful shots of history. I love that door shot and imagine that it was quite spooky inside.
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Just one word………….INCREDIBLE!!!
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We love exploring historic places like that. Thanks for sharing LadyFi.
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Hi there I am visiting your site as another Our World Tuesday participant today my friend! What a spooky location.
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Wow! I actually love it! I am surprised you didn’t bump into any hobbits down there! wonderful photos and poetic writing!
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Look at that! That is kind of spooky!
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That’s just amazing!
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That was spooky! I’m a little claustophobic, so don’t know if that would suit me. So I’ll just look at your great pics instead. 🙂
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You are braver than I am – I would not have gone far from the door, at all! But I love your photos!
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Like a giant emerging from the forest! Amazing … all the more so for knowing I’ll probably never see a sight like that downunder in OZ!!
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Even though it was built for a “dark” reason, it looks so inviting from the outside… very ironic.
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It looks like a huge mashroom ! When I was a child in Bonn our playground was bunkers in the woods and ruins of houses and we had such a fun ! Of course when you are 8 years old you don’t know nothing about the tragedies of these places. I remember that some of my schoolmates lived in such a thing, each family had one room or two rooms to share ! I always remember the smell inside this bunker people were cooking and living their lives in there now when I think of it I wonder how that was possible ! Today this bunker still exists in Bonn, they have tried to make it look better with plants and paintings but I know what was underneath !
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Wonderful photographs, dear LadyFi. The light is just perfect, especially in the last one.
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So unusual!
Thanks for sharing your eerie experience and wonderful shots;o)
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Hope you are having a nice and happy week***
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Ladyfi,
Really! It looks like a giant helmet of which owner is buried underground!
One hundred years, such a long time has passed and legacy of the war has been a part of nature now. For me it is moving.
Best wishes,
keiko
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You did a great job of showing this eerie and sort of strangely charming place.
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This is fantastic! I’m glad you posted these shots. The top one is amazing, have never seen anything of the kind.
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thanks for sharing this adventure 🙂 i love the black mouth door shot ~ and the sunset shot in the last post is fantastic, it was rare and beautiful when the lake we used to live on looked like a shimmering mirror, thanks for taking me back to some great memories ♥
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Fabulous shots, but I could not have gone in that thing!
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It’s interesting to see how nature works its magic to cover up unsightly structures created by humans.
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Thanks for showing the Wonders of Nature at its best.
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I suppose it is warm in winter and cool in summer. In Vietnam, they have rabbit holes and they were used a lot. Now it is a major tourist attraction.
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ancient ghosts whispering in the walls, at least these ghosts were not from victims who died inside. My mum had shallow bunkers in Borneo during the second world war.
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Magnificent!!! It look like a magical gnome house only for adults. Your pictures always floor me sweetie!!!
God bless ya !!! :o)
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The bunker is very interesting–and enduring.
(I deliberately turned comments off because I have found the comments to be far less than nice. I can live without that feedback after a long day at work. I can live without the reminder that people are first selfish and then unkind when the world is not perfect.)
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I never thought I would find a bunker to be beautiful.
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It is amazing to see this bunker overgrown by nature. That must have been interesting stepping back into time.
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Fabulous post, Fiona. You’ve captured light beautifully.
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This is absolutely amazing. Have to share this on my Twitter page. Spectacular find!!!
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“Thou art a better man than I Gunga Din” – you wouldn’t get me in there by myself, or even with a dog for company, I’d be imagining all the monsterous spiders that inhabited a dark, dank and eerie place like that, just waiting to leap on me…ugh. Fascinating photo’s though, can you imagine having to sleep in a place like that?
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It looks so wonderfully magical! Have a great weekend!
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Crikey you wouldn’t catch me in there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Fantastiska bilder, ser ut som en jätta svamp.
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Spooky indeed! Sends chills down one’s spine. Bbrrrr!
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Oh, my goodness! This is fascinating and amazing! We have WWI bunkers over on the other side of the state, but nothing quite like this.
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This entire series is incredible. Such a fascinating history and your photographs are exquisite.
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Wow these are some awesome images, i wish I had me photography skills, I would love to learn some day. Maybe I’ll focus on purchasing me some basic camera equipment, and it must be digital though, cause I have no clue how to work a dark room. My uncle has no clue what he’s missing here on WordPress. He’s been into photography for many years & I told him to get a website up to showcase it, I guess I’m gonna have to teach him how to use this awesome blogging platform. Thanks for sharing such beautiful imagery of Nature here. I’m motivated to get things going with photography, because of finding this wordpress location.
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I can’t even tell you how this took my breath away!
All of your photos, and words and quotes, here tonight catching up .. stunning and missed and an honour.
But something about this is just unreal. Surreal.
thank you for being here. thank you .
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Beautiful! I saw a similar pillbox that the Nazis left on the Italian Ligurian coast last year, sitting up on the hillside overlooking the water. It was pretty, but I think I like yours better. Thank you so much for sharing it!
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Wow!
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